a court in Sanaa, Yemen, sentenced an Iranian to death for drug tra
the Indonesian Attorney General Office, which recorded 92 prisoners, 32 of them foreigners
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua pardoned a man who spent more than two decades on death row for
slamming the Madhya Pradesh Government for shoddy prosecution, the Indian Supreme Court acquitted
a dozen al-Qaida agents have been sentenced to be executed in Algeria after the trial of more than 100
the Gaza City-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights wrote a report on the death sentence by a military
responding to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights demand to an end to hangings in
Iran hanged two men convicted of murdering a government official in the northern province of Gilan, the
Texas executed a former New York City hair stylist with a long criminal record for the robbery, rape and
About 120 Afghans are on death row and their fate rests with President Hamid Karzai, who has to approve any execution order.
a Chadian man was beheaded by the sword in the western region of Mecca, Saudi Ara
a Palestinian security official was sentenced to death by a Palestinian Authority military court
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
